Relationship between propagation direction of gravity waves in OH and OI airglow images and VHF radar echo occurrence during the SEEK-2 campaign

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 2385-2390

  Onoma, F ^a,b   Otsuka, Y ^a   Shiokawa, K ^a   Ogawa, T ^a   Yamamoto, Mamoru ^c   Fukao, Shoichiro ^c   Saito, S ^d  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION   (Japan)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atmospheric composition and structure (Air glow and aurora); Ionosphere (Ionospheric irregularities, Mid latitude ionosphere)

Indexed keywords

IONOSPHERE;

EID: 27844449937     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: 14320576     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/angeo-23-2385-2005     Document Type: Article

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